Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-19
INCIDENTS OF THE VISIT.



ATLANTA, Ga, Oct lg-There have been
many peculiar incidents connected with the
entertainment of the presidential party in
this city. One of the most striking of these
occurred Monday nigh, at the kimball house
shortly after the arrival of the presidential
party well dressed and evidently upper
ten Georgian stood wit in few feet of the
presidents private parlOrs, and called out to
the proprietor of the hotel, who was near
him vigorously shaking his forefinger in the
direction Of the door, where two cavalrymen
selected from the escort had been placed by
the military authorities to keep of the
crowds:
Il wish you would inform Mr.. Cleveland
that if Georgians are to be barred from shak-
ing hands with the president of the United
States by sabres at his chamber door, by God,
sir, he had better go back to Washington.
Jeff Davis will be here next week, and there'H
be no sabres between him AID the gentlemen
of Georgia" A large number of persons be-
sides the hotel proprietor were standing in
the immediate vicinity of the speaker, but
they merely smiled at the insulting remark
As matter of fact the president was not
aware that guards had been stationed at his
door, and as a further fact if this precaution
had not been taken the guests would have
had no privacy. As it was, every time their
door was opened grand rush was made by
hundreds of people whose curiosity ap-
parently overcame their sense of propriety
There is a great deal of quiet grumbling
and complaint among citizens of Atlanta, be-
cause of the exclusiveness of the manage
ment of arrangements for the presidential
So.
annoyed because there are so many strangers
who have no opportunity to see the executive,
disaffected ones charge Mr. Grady, who is
the manager general of everything, with
having brought discredit upon the city So
far as the entertainment Of the presidential
party is concerned, however, all of the men,
bers thereof express themselves as delighted
with the programme
To say that Atlanta was crowded
doesn't begin to tell all Upwards of
10000 people were occupying accom-
modations Tuesday night sufficient for
not more than one-third that number.
1t was decided to open and warm the
churches, with view to giving strangers
roof under which to pass the night The
crowd at the Kimball house was simply ter
per, as the store of provisions had been en-
tirely exhausted. Restaurants in the city
could not even supply a sandwich The re-
suit is much annoyance and suffering. 1t
has been with the greatest difficulty that the
presidential party have secured sufficient
food while at the hotel The dinners and
luncheons given in their honor outside, how
ever, have been of the most elaborate char
acter and hugely enjoyed.
The Atlanta Journal, commenting on the
decorations, says; "At y Wheat street floats
once more to the breezes the red, white, and
red with the thirteen stars the emblem of the
dead Confederacy. Some kind hand deco
rated the picture Of the great chieftain, Hon.
Jefferson Davis, with the Confederate colors.
Old soldiers when they pass by take off their
hats and in their hearts all southerners do
him reverence"
The presidential reception committee from
Chattanooga called on the president and Mrs
Cleveland Tuesday, and presented them with
a most unique and beautiful souvenir in the
shape of an album, containing views of
Chattanooga, the battlefields of Missionary
Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga,
and other points of interest throughout the
city. The book was bound with silk plush,
beautifully inscribed, and on the back was
large chip from pine tree taken from Chick
amauga battlefield in which lodged large
piece of Federal shell fired in one Of the
famous battles about Chattanooga The
souvenir was presented without any demon
stration. President Cleveland was also pre-
seDted with hickory walking cane cut from
the battlefield of Lookout Mountain by an
old rebel soldier.